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theoneeyedlizard

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15th Apr, 2007 at 03:40:51pm

Hi Guys, Just taken my head off as my car has been leaking water from the head gasket.

This happened to me about two months ago, except that time the gasket went from a waterway into the cylinder.

What do you think might be causing this?

I have taken some pics.

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15th Apr, 2007 at 03:46:45pm

that looks to me like a lack of anti-freze in the coolant erodign the gasket. jsut a guess tho *tongue*

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15th Apr, 2007 at 04:11:38pm

Does it always go in the same place?
Silly question, but was it torqued down properly?

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15th Apr, 2007 at 05:29:45pm

get the head flashed off i think its a torque related issue

remember torque the head nuts down to 55 foot pound






theoneeyedlizard

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15th Apr, 2007 at 09:52:44pm

Thanks for the quick replys.

Coolant was good, as I had only replaced all of the water and oil 3 months ago when it last went.

Last time it went on the opposite end.

I could have been a tourque issue, I suppose I will only find out once I get it back together.

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theoneeyedlizard

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15th Apr, 2007 at 09:53:01pm

Thanks for the quick replys.

Coolant was good, as I had only replaced all of the water and oil 3 months ago when it last went.

Last time it went on the opposite end.

I could have been a tourque issue, I suppose I will only find out once I get it back together.

Steve, Check your PM

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16th Apr, 2007 at 02:37:25pm

How many miles is it till your meant to change a Head Gasket ?

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16th Apr, 2007 at 03:12:14pm

No idea, but I had done less than 500 miles on this one.

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16th Apr, 2007 at 03:32:39pm

Mine's done 7000k since rebuild.
Would you think it be worth changing, or just change it if and when it goe's ?

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16th Apr, 2007 at 03:49:58pm

no reason to change a good head gasket:)

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16th Apr, 2007 at 04:20:42pm

IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT.


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16th Apr, 2007 at 04:27:19pm

True tom :)

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16th Apr, 2007 at 04:28:49pm

Hi,
Are the studs any good?
If they're stretching too much when you torque it down, or afterwards you'll be loosing the clamping pressure.
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16th Apr, 2007 at 06:38:09pm

Good point Gavin ... I had some studs that caused me loads of problems which went away with some new ones.

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16th Apr, 2007 at 06:45:28pm




On 16th of Apr, 2007 at 04:20pm Tom Fenton said:
IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT.


NB- This rule applies everywhere except cambelts......


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Carlos Fandango

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16th Apr, 2007 at 07:24:59pm

AHHH don't mention cambelts!!

just had to do the belt on my old bids 106, which was fine until the waterpump decided it was going to piss water 5 mins after i finished...*oh well*

plus while i'm doing that the wshing machine decided it was about to seize solid...

and to top it all i dropped an allen key down the dizzy hole on my mini while i was pressure testing the 7 port manifold....

after all it was about 8pm last night so i thought sod cooking, i'll get a takeaway, they managed to cock the order up and then take an hour and half to deliver it due to their delivery car packing up...

all in all yesterday was a pretty wanky day,*indifferent*

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16th Apr, 2007 at 07:38:43pm

Sounds pretty average to me 13 .....

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